I have decided to maintain one thread for future AAR's and general postings for our TOS campaign. We have been playing this campaign for quite some time now. At first we thought it might not take so long, after all it could potentially take only 5 games to finish the campaign. However that has not been the way it has worked out.

Only two out of the four players won their chapter 1 games. Therefore 2 players had to play Cairo Caper to gain a relic. For one player it took only one try to gain a relic. For the other player, well we just gave up on him ever getting a relic after his third attempt...

The three players with relics advanced through the chapter 2 adventures, each playing no more than 2 scenarios. The three players then formed a team to take on the chapter 3 scenarios. They breezed through the Burning Desert scenario, and looked set to powerhouse their way through the Nameless Ruins. However they became victims of having combined themselves into one ad hoc league. Because they were three leagues it meant that 6 cards were drawn per turn to determine what servants they would encounter. Even though most of them were mounted or had other means to traverse the board in a quick manner they found themselves bogged down by the sheer number of enemies the materialized.

A quick shout out to Dave for making me paint a large number of figures to cover off on all possible card draws I am quite happy to have been inspired to get more of my unpainted figures finished off!

To date we have played the Nameless Ruins 4 times, with victory going to the good guys only once. From the Nameless Ruins we went onto the tomb itself were the much reduced leagues fell to the forces of evil. After this last defeat, the leading league decided to return to Cairo to look for the relic he did not have, and to gain some more experience and reputation. He is determined not to have to rely on other leagues to get back to the tomb. The other league that had attempted the tomb with him disbanded and the player has started a new league, with no better success than the previous league (2 games 2 defeats)

The third league played the Nameless Ruins again and again went down to defeat. A fourth league had to drop out as he had moved back to the Toronto area and strangely did not feel like driving 5 hours to continue playing in the campaign.

So after this past weekend August 4th, one league remains poised at the Nameless Ruins, another is about to leave Cairo for the Burning Desert, and the third league (the newly formed league) remains stuck in Cairo. Overall the games have been a lot of fun with some good challenges. We have been playing once a month which does make it seem like we have been doing this for a long time, but really we have not played that many games, but certainly more than the 5 that we thought we might get away with.

Here are some pics from last weekend, no AAR for any of the games this time, but more at my blog.

It's nice to see ,a large collection of crescent root buildings on one table. Definitely sell a kidney price range this side of the pond.I do have their station set very versitle it is too its been dockside buildings(as I think part of yours has.)An airport,and a village,as well as the station .I wish I could have afforded the large domed building as well. But Hay ho, I ended up have to improvise and use Supreme little designs buildings. (I did a short thread on how to achieve the crescent look on other buildingsIt's nice to see some budget conscious items blending in nicely with the crescent stuff. Be it second hand buses,or the paper boat re enforcing the storytelling / table theme.

It's nice to see ,a large collection of crescent root buildings on one table. Definitely sell a kidney price range this side of the pond.I do have their station set very versitle it is too its been dockside buildings(as I think part of yours has.)An airport,and a village,as well as the station .I wish I could have afforded the large domed building as well. But Hay ho, I ended up have to improvise and use Supreme little designs buildings. (I did a short thread on how to achieve the crescent look on other buildingsIt's nice to see some budget conscious items blending in nicely with the crescent stuff. Be it second hand buses,or the paper boat re enforcing the storytelling / table theme.

Should add a few more pictures from your blog though

Mark.

First off thanks for the commentsI have to say this side of the border and with the Canadian dollar rarely performing any where close to par, the Crescent Root building certainly impacted on my budget too. Oh well the pension fund was just sitting there anyways.Loved the buildings when I first saw them used by Ivor on his Saturday mornings blog. More dollars than sense I suppose.

Should have said thank you to you a while back for putting me onto Supreme Littleness Designs and for your thread on painting them. Yes it was a short thread, hoping for more nudge nudge (what blue paint do you use on the door?)

Used your ideas on some Tabla Rasa buildings from Knights of Dice too.

I always hesitate on posting too many pictures, kind of thought we were not supposed to go too pic heavy.

I have to agree with the doodler. The more the merrier. Never quite got my head round threads that are little more than a link.I like to see plenty of pictures here.not be sent on a quest across the ether.to find what someone's on about.

In all honesty I couldn't justify the expense so mine came via a trade/barter for a sculpt.

The paint I used was, Game colour electric blue.

I've recently finished a back of beyond Armoured train in card . So the next challenge was for a medival castle so I'll add something relevant to that (since you asked )